mrv3000 | Torchwood

And somehow I managed to get in a DW S4 casting spoiler.

So the big hunk of meat turns out to be whale-ish, and not some giant Holstein-colored cube. Oh, the alien whale was decent. Just not as cool a giant Holstein-colored cube. One that moos. It's probably very very good I don't run any sci-fi shows.
Gwen and Rhys got some good dialog and Jack got some horrible dialog. (Well, he did get a couple of really funny lines.) But there were a few very cringe-worthy ones as well. There's been some clunky dialog in the past, but this is the first time I was facepalming.
How happy am I that Rhys now knows about Torchwood and his memory hasn't been erased? Very happy. When Gwen was talking about protecting Rhys as the reason for keeping the secret, I kept wondering how exactly Rhys would be protected. Oh, it'd make him less worried, so I suppose protecting him in that way. But beyond that, there's really no harm in him knowing from what I could see. Him being suspicious and not knowing is what wound up putting him in danger. Sure he could blab stuff to people, but who would believe him? Anyway, I was afraid they'd fall into that tired formula of having the S.O. being perpetually kept in the dark, but they didn't! Woo!
I'm sorry, but I don't really get the whole Jack/Gwen thing that was going on in this episode. I mean, you really can't expect me to believe that he's now in love with Gwen, can you? Or does he just want what she has? What happened to him always telling her to hold on to her outside life? What happened to Ianto? Was he just a quick shag? Not that I need Jack to be OTP-ish with anyone, just I'm feeling a bit of character continuity whiplash at the moment.
And speaking of continuity whiplash, why did we suddenly see compassionate Jack? What prompted that? Like Gwen said - "You do have a heart!" What made Jack suddenly become emotionally involved with the whale, when he was cold as ice to the sleeper agent just recently? GIVE US MORE JACK INSIGHT, YOU HOSEBEASTS! THE MYSTERY!MAN THING IS GETTING FRUSTRATING! At least it looks like we'll finally get something of Jack next week though. Something big.
And speaking of next week, might these people (nerdy!Owen and so on) be from a parallel world? *BOUNCE* Oh, it'll probably have absolutely nothing to do with That Certain S4 Casting Spoiler^TM, but it still makes me bounce. Because perhaps other Torchwoods have been messing around with AUs. \o/

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